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This is an auction for KIM by Rudyard Kipling.
Amazon.com review:
"One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his dissolute father's death. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of 'a great Red Bull on a green field.' In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road."
More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.
Penguin paperback 1987.
365 pages.
Very good condition.
The cost of shipping is $3.95 (ordinary post) or $5.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $8.95.
There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Wellington following the auction.
Payment within seven days, please.
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Shipping & pick-up options
Destination & description | Price | |
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NZ Post or courier | $3.95 | |
tracked mail | $5.95 | |
tracked mail for Rural Delivery (RD) | $8.95 | |
Pick-up available from Palmerston North, Manawatu | Free |
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Pay Now, Cash, NZ Bank Deposit